Quotes About Form

Rap in its form is poetry, meaning the point of convergence is words.

Artistry is the dance of color & form, whether visual, musical, or sparked in the imagination by the written word.

Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in memorable form - or else it is not art.

Classic means standard as opposed to Romantic: form before meaning as opposed to meaning before form. It grows from inside out while Romantic grows from outside in.

An artist has to take life as he finds it. Life by itself is formless wherever it is. Art must give it form.

Radio is the art form of sports casting. If you're any good, you can do a great job on radio.

Do not have an attitude, open yourself and focus yourself and express yourself. Reject external form that fails to express internal reality.

The worst question really comes from the attitude of the asker and it usually comes in the form of "What was your inspiration for the film?"

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thought with totality as its content has to be considered as an art form, like poetry, whose function is primarily to give rise to a new perception, and to action that is implicit in this perception, rather than to communicate reflective knowledge of how everything is. This implies that there can no more be an ultimate form of such thought than there could be an ultimate poem (that would make all further poems unnecessary).

The important point is that the intention is a kind of implicate order; the intention unfolds from the whole meaning. It doesn't just come out of nothing. Therefore a person cannot form intentions except on the basis of what the situation means to him, and if he misses the mark on what it means, he will form the wrong intentions.

And Lo, for the Earth was empty of Form, and void. And Darkness was all over the Face of the Deep. And We said: 'Look at that fucker Dance.

I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to those worst dreams' form itself: the sudden intra-dream realization that the nightmares' very essence and center has been with you all along, even awake: it's just been... overlooked.

What piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving, how express and admirable in action, how like an angel in apprehension, how like a god! The beauty of the world. The paragon of animals. And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?

Conceal me what I am, and be my aid for such disguise as haply shall become the form of my intent.

What a piece of work is a man! How noble in Reason! how infinite in faculties! in form and moving how express and admirable! In action how like an Angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! and yet to me, what is this quintessence of dust? Man delights not me; no, nor Woman neither; though by your smiling you seem to say so.

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Love can transpose to form and dignity.

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Our perhaps understandable modern need to full the sawtooth edges of so many of the afflictions we are heir to has led us to banish the harsh old-fashioned words: madhouse, asylum, insanity, melancholia, lunatic, madness. But never let it be doubted that depression, it its extreme form, is madness.

Language alone is one of the worst means of expressing form, while drawing is incomparably the best.

Although the old hound had no way of knowing it, he had stirred memories, and what priceless treasures they were. Memories of my boyhood days, an old K. C. Baking Powder can, and two little red hounds. Memories of a wonderful love, unselfish devotion, and death in its saddest form.

We shape our buildings; thereafter they shape us.

First we shape our buildings; thereafter, they shape us.